"Now tell me, what do you practice every day for? Shouting for national hegemony, you can only see those heroes in your eyes, do you think that only they are worthy of your serious attention!? Because it is only a pre-selection, there is no strong team in the group, can you easily win? ”

The Qingdao contestant who was questioned by Kataoka was still silent.

"Less arrogant!"

"I said before that I would forget the honor of a month ago, and it seems that everyone didn't take it to heart." Superintendent Kataoka crossed his hands on his hips and said to the teenagers in front of him in a stern tone, "I don't mind repeating it here again: it was your seniors who won the Koshien championship and achieved national dominance... It basically has nothing to do with you... Don't think too much of yourself! ”

"With the strength of this team now, not to mention going to Koshien next spring, I'm afraid I won't even be able to win the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly in the fall."

After saying this, Superintendent Kataoka was silent for a while, and then spoke again.

"Chris, Yuuki, have you forgotten your regrets from last summer?"

"Huh!?" After hearing Kataoka's question, Chris and Tetsuya Yuuki remembered together Seichi, who stopped in the quarterfinals of the Summer Liga qualifiers last summer.

"If you don't have it, lead the team to run, thirty laps!"

"Yes!" Tetsuya Yuuki, who was the captain, came out of the queue and led the others to run around the A training ground.

"Wow! The overseer really lost his temper. ”

Yuki Tanaka, who was practicing at the B training ground, looked at the situation on the other side and said to the student of the same level next to him.

"He's going to say that, and he seems to be quite angry." Taro Fukuda, who was also paying attention to the situation on the other side, spoke.

"Hurry up!"

Yagami Night, who was attracted by the A training ground, was yelled at by Higashi, who was waiting for the blow, before returning his attention to the shot with the senior.

"It's so strict!" Murasuke Taiki muttered while waving his bat, not knowing who he was talking about.

"Well... Now they can only be reprimanded while trying to find a way to solve every problem. ”

Taking over Takashi Fujii's words, Jinguji, who was warming up, said, "Last year, we also explored for a long time at the beginning, and the autumn meeting was originally to find problems while fighting. ”

"That's the way it is..."Kentaro Matsuda got up and tossed the baseball he had just received back to Jinguji.

"This is also something that can't be helped, this year's situation is not like last year, when you hit Koshien and went all the way to the top to achieve national domination, so the time left for the new team is too short!" Hiroshi Ota, who was standing next to the iron net, looked at the juniors who were running opposite, and didn't think there was anything wrong with the new team's performance at all.

……

When the first preliminary selection for the Autumn Metropolitan Games, which was supposed to end on September 25th, was changed due to rainy weather and could not be completed until the 28th, second-year students Yagami Yagami, Chris, and Tetsuya Yuuki boarded the school bus to Hyogo Prefecture with third-year students to participate in this year's National Sports Games in Hyogo Prefecture.

The Hyogo National Sports High School Hardball Club was held at the Takasago City Stadium, and at the lottery meeting on the 29th, the luck of the captain of the Seido team Higashi Kiyokuni was not very good, and in the case of no bye in the first battle, Chikuro Wakayama, who had a duel in Koshikoku, was drawn as the opponent of the first match of the national stadium.

In the first match on September 30, Yagami Yagami, who had not played in formula battles and practice matches for more than a month since the end of Koshien, started the board and finished the game.

4:0, this is the score between Aodo and Chikuba Wakayama after the end of the ninth inning, Yagami Night, who was not plagued by fever, used an excellent performance to clean up Chikura Wakayama's line, and won the first battle.

In the second round of the second battle on the second day, the three-year-old Jinguji took the lead and finished the game, and defeated Fukuchiyama Narumi in the second round with a score of 1:0.

After a day's break, the quasi-tiebreaker on October 3 was still the first to be played by Jingujiichi, who lost two consecutive points on a home run by his opponent Shizuoka Sho's Takimoto in the second half of the first inning, but quickly recovered, and then only lost one point in the bottom half of the third inning. At the same time, Seido's line also scored four consecutive points from Shizuoka merchant pitchers.

In the next six games, the game came to an end when Aodo and Shizuoka Shang never scored from each other.

On October 4th, Seichi and Koma Otomaki ushered in a showdown again in the national body.

In the second half of the seventh inning, Komama Otomaki hit a home run and took the lead to break the deadlock on the score and lead 1:0.

In the second half of the eighth inning, Yagami was hit in the right arm by Komayama Komaki with a powerful flat fly ball, and after he picked up the baseball on the ground with his left hand in pain, turned around and passed the ball to first base, he could only crouch on the ground and ask Superintendent Kataoka to change pitchers.

In the ensuing game, even if Jingu Tereichi was not overcome by the opponent's line, even if Qingdao's line fought back desperately, it was useless in front of the well-formed Tanaka Shodai, showing them the strength of the strongest pitcher of the generation.

After losing the match by Shosho Tanaka, the Seido players finally understand why the Koshien crowd would regard Komanaka's Koma Omakomai as the villain... Say that they won Koshien because they were favored by the god of baseball!?

If Tanaka Shogun, who was in the final match against them in Koshien, was in such good shape as he was today, they would not have had a chance to play a playoff match against Komaomai and a rematch on the second day, and Seichi would only be a backdrop for Komaomai to achieve Koshien Triple Victory.

"We're back." Yagami followed Rei Takashima from the hospital to the hotel where they were staying.

"How did it turn out?"

Yagami, who went to the hospital for a check-up after the game, was diagnosed with a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow due to discomfort in his right forearm and inflammation of his right elbow, and was told to rest for at least six weeks.

……

Due to the change of schedule due to rainy weather in the preliminary selection for the autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Meeting, the selection meeting for the autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly was postponed to September 30, because Tetsuya Yuki, who was the captain of the team, was participating in the national sports in Takasago City, Hyogo Prefecture, so Jun Isashiki, who was the vice-captain, represented Seido at Kaicheng High School to participate in the lottery.

Jun Izaki will not have good luck in the semi-finals, and will not play the other three giants of Tokyo until the semi-finals, while Ichidai and Inagi will decide the winner in the other half, and will not play the winner of them until the final.

……

"The opponent of the first battle is Hachioshi!?"

"It's a very good team..."

"The opponent of the second round battle is the island of the city of Tsuru-no-shima?"

"It's the opponent of the previous three rounds of Hagar qualifiers..."

"Why is your shipment so unstable?"

"Yes! It's almost like Yuuki. ”

Seeing the schedule of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly in the autumn, the second-year Seido students are not calm, and if they want to enter the semi-finals, they will have to play against the strong teams in the Tokyo metropolitan area one by one, and then win.

"Hahaha!" Faced with the questioning of his classmates, Jun Izashaki reached out and scratched his head, and said loudly, "How do I know? ”

"And what were you laughing at? Want to get by? ”。

……

The noise of the seniors attracted the attention of many annual students passing by the training ground.